Weekly news | 2026-04-08
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- Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
- CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
- TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters
- Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
- TruffleRuby
- Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years
- Intuiting Pratt Parsing
- Is BGP safe yet?
- The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
- Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths
- I quit. The clankers won
- StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)
- AI for American-produced cement and concrete
- Ada and Spark on ARM Cortex-M – A Tutorial with Arduino and Nucleo Examples
- Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)
- U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'
- SpaceX files to go public
- Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera
- Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity
- LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
- Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
- Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
- Google releases Gemma 4 open models
- Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
- Significant raise of reports
- IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
- Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
- Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
- Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
- Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
- Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM
- Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
- Gone (Almost) Phishin'
- The Weather Channel – RetroCast
- 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
- Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
- Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
- What Gödel Discovered (2020)
- New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds
- Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
- Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
- Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation
- Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
- OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
- The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
- Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
- Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas
- Delve removed from Y Combinator
- Some Unusual Trees
- Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
- The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
- Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
- How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
- The CMS is dead, long live the CMS
- Components of a Coding Agent
- German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
- The most-disliked people in the publishing industry
- Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
- The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites
- When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
- Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens
- Bourbon waste could provide next-gen supercapacitor components
- Scientists observe an immune signaling complex forming inside cells
- Electrical Transformer Manufacturing Is Throttling the Electrified Future
- Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000)
- France pulls last gold held in US
- The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes
- An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon
- Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
- Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
- Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
- What being ripped off taught me
- Signals, the push-pull based algorithm
- German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
- Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
- The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
- Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
- A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
- One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking
- Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
- Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
- Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed
- 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone
- Usenet Archives
- Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
- The Last Quiet Thing
- Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
- My Experience as a Rice Farmer
- Every GPU That Mattered
- Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
- Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
- Are We Idiocracy Yet?
- Running out of disk space in production
- Taste in the age of AI and LLMs
- Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion
- 12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)
- A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
- Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
- Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it
- Lunar Flyby
- AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC
- Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead